Virtual Warfare Games Just Got More Exhilarating

If you aspire to be a warrior on the battlefield and to face legions of soldiers that fight against your cause and don't quite want to join the military's ranks, what do you do? The answer is simple - embark on an action-filled war experience by playing a Call of Duty game. The titles of the CoD game series offer an array of high-octane settings and a slew of weaponry that you can utilize to battle sinister forces so as to accomplish given objectives.

A first-person/third person-shooter video game franchise, Call of Duty was made available for the first time on the PC; the following titles were made available on other consoles as well. Since its inception, numerous spin-offs of this series have been released. The first three installments in this series are mainly set during the Second World War. With the release of the fourth title, Modern Warfare, this series emphasized more on modern-time warfare. The following installments in the series (World at War, Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3) explored periods like the Cold War and the near future. The latest installment in this series is Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare which features the voice talents of 2-time Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey as CEO Jonathan Irons.

The installments of this series have been published by Activision and developed primarily by companies like Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Treyarch. The IW 5.0, the id Tech 3 and the Treyarch NGL are among some of the game engines that have been utilized by the respective titles of this series. By the 11th of November, 2011, the CoD series had sold more than 100 million copies and by the end of March, 2012, there were more than 40 million active players across every CoD title on a monthly basis. Since its release in 2011, more than 1.6 billion hours of online gameplay have been witnessed in Modern Warfare 3. The franchise has also expanded and spawned a line of action figures (designed by Plan-B Toys), Mega bloks sets (Mega Brands), a card game (Upper Deck), as well as a comic book mini-series that was published by WildStorm. Another interesting bit of trivia - phenomenal music producers/film score composers like Hans Zimmer of The Dark Knight fame and Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, have produced the scores for some of the titles of this series.

Want to buy Call of Duty games but don't know where they will be available? Well, you don't have to search through the shelves of all the stores in your city in order to do so. You can buy CoD games online by visiting shopping websites (e-commerce websites) which offer you some, if not all, the titles that this series has come out with. You can pay for the product of your choice with your credit/debit card or via netbanking. Don't think that these websites are trustworthy? In that case, you can opt for the cash on delivery payment method which certain e-commerce websites offer; with this method you can pay for the product that you have ordered for with cash once the commodity has been delivered to your doorstep.